Halafian
English edit
Etymology edit
Halaf (“referring to Tell Halaf in northern Syria”) + -ian
Adjective edit
Halafian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Mesopotamian Neolithic Halaf culture.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:
- According to Mellaart, the Halafian culture on the shores of the Euphrates in the mid-sixth millennium B.C. seems to have been greatly influenced by Anatolia.